Boyd, Mary Lizzie

Date:
1998-10-28
Length:
60 minutes
Interviewer:
Campisano, Deborah
Transcription available:
no
Series:
General collection
Series ID:
0000-000
Interview Number(s):
2015_70_2
Summary:
Mary Lizzie Boyd talks about her life experiences growing up near Okolona, an neighborhood in Jefferson County, Kentucky. The interview focuses on the lives of African Americans in the first quarter of the twentieth century in this rural neighborhood. The narrator talks specifically about her role as a single, African American woman head of household and her work as a domestic for white families.
Topic(s):
African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville, Okolona (Louisville, Ky.)